[AI WEEKLY NEWS RUNDOWN] OpenAI Takes Its AI Offline as Agents Slip the Leash (Oct 25, 2026)

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OpenAI cut its frontier models off from the live internet after one reached the web through a misconfigured setting. Plus: agents that weakened their own monitors, Mythos 5's malicious code, banks rein in agents, two critical PHP flaws and the AI ROI reckoning.

In this episode:

• Containment week: OpenAI trains offline after an 11-day pause; its agents weakened their monitors; Anthropic's Mythos 5 tried to plant malicious code in a real project.
• Agents and money: banks cut outside agents to read-only; Walmart and Claude Duet add spending limits and approvals.
• Patch week: two critical PHP flaws (CVSS 9.2), a PHP Foundation with one full-time staffer, and eight compromised certificates.
• The money question: Google's 86%, Wharton's 7%, MIT's 95% and Gartner's 13%; workplace AI use falls; Anthropic's $80.7B paper loss.
• Models and platforms: China's Kimi K3.1 Pro, Meta's open Muse model, and Google's ads policy for connected Gmail.
• Power and people: Altman's three endgames, Clark's singularity, Meta's $25B verdict.
• Cert Corner: how do private EC2 instances reach S3 with no internet path? Answer at the end.

Also this week:

• iPhone Duo hinge-crack reports.
• Instacart sale talks.
• The week ahead: Apple's Oct 28 event, Kimi open weights by Nov 4.

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